Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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McDi·.rit t
with the limited knowledge t~at we had of the
targ0·I; ·.3 I felt that acquisiti.on and tracking of
the targf,b'1 w·,::J a lot ,,>::i,:,:j_.~r than I had tho-.i.ght
it was going to be .
I guess thats
I
all.
The next target that we had was Ywna Tnternatinna1
Airpo:d .
Here again we had a tar.get that ·,1::i.::;
not a very prol'.linent lal'ld.nri.rk .
The time of
closest apprJach and acquisitio·:1 time and the
aiming 1.1ngles were adequate .
It gave m,1 a good
idea of what I should be looking f,:n- a,..'1d 1,hen I
should be looking.
I used the same maps again;
I used the cutout of a WAC Chart plus a great
big world c~'lart .
'I1here was qui t0 a
discontinuity in the s0ul ~ of these two maps ,
but I
I m not really sure that we co·..1ldn
I t have
done t:'le job wlth just those two .
I think tnat
what we probably needed was a world map that
showed a little more detail and a WAC Chart
that showed a little bit more area.
What we
prob 01bly coul::l. ha"e used most of all was a
phot,:>grap1', rif ~~'le ar =1a .
As I came in across
the Califoraia coast. I )icked np the Salton
Sea and El Centro , just below the Sal ton Sea,
and then I mew that, Yuma was on the Colorado
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